Daniel Coxe

Daniel Coxe (1640-19 January 1730) was Governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1688 (succeeding Edward Byllynge and preceding Edmund Andros) and from 1689 to 1692 (succeeding Andros and preceding Andrew Hamilton).

Biography
Daniel Coxe was born in London, England in 1640, and he was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He served as a physician at the court of King Charles II of England and later to that of Queen Anne, and he was nominally Governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1688 and from 1689 to 1692 due to his landholdings. In 1692, he sold most of his land, and he acquired a land grant in the Carolinas in 1698. He died in 1730.